Summary of Status as on 4 April 2001 : 1600 GMT:

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Summary of Status as on 4 April 2001 : 1600 GMT:

 

Next update will be tomorrow!

 

1. Actions :

Action on Everyone to give more improvement comments

 

Action on Anuragji to check numerologically.

Action on someone@delhi to contact Shrivastavji for

name checking. volunteers reqd!

Action on everyone to say yes/no to poll for web

space >30 MB

Action on Everyone to think about howto/whatto link

to portals/add of multimedia (audio/video)

Action on everyone to provide list of search

engines/directories/portals that do not currently list

www.siddhashram.org

 

2. Current Issues :

a. Do we need userid/password strategy. Is multiple accounts feasible

in long term? Any other alternative strategy.

b. Best way to add audio/video content (if required)

c. Do we need more than 30 MB at this stage?

 

 

3. Finalising name. The current entries for the

"WHATEVER_WE_LIKE_IF_AVAILABLE."

(i.e. name) are (sorry, formatting maybe hazy!) -

 

votes recvd till date (4/4/1)

a. shakti 1+1

b. sadhak/sadhaks 1+1+1

c. sadhnakishakti 1

d. nikhileshwaram 1

e. Gurudev 1

f.Guruparampara 1

g.sadhana 1

h.issp 1+1

j.voiceofsadhaks 1+1

k.disciples 1

l.shishyanet 1

m. Sadhnashakti 1

 

 

 

4. Proposed Sections. The data for this NEW site will be picked up

from postings into

this () discussion group. The preamble of this site is- "This

site would work as a filter and prevent siddhashram.org from being

jam packed with junk.

The currently proposed sections for the NEW site are the following:

a. "My Experiences with Gurudev". (how did I meet Gurudev,

benefits/effects in my life, plus containing stuff similar to "We

have witnessed Divinity" from Sadhaks posting into

discussion group)

b. "Sadhna Camp from a Sadhak's perspective" (experience of Sadhaks

about what they saw in shivir(sadhna camp), how shivir is conducted,

arrangement of food & lodging in shivir, how many people attended

etc. etc.)

c. "Divine Experiences in Sadhana" ( might get very,very few

responses due to restriction on telling others about Sadhana

expereinces)

d. Summary of main postings on discussion group

e. "Comments/Analysis of various books".

f. Collection of additions to FAQ and glossary sections. Graphical

content in FAQ ( This

will be periodically submitted to Gurudham. Once they upload

authentic answers to official FAQ & glossary , then this section will

be cleared/reset). graphical display of Asanas, prannayam, nyaas,

"how to tie a dhoti" etc. other entries are "ideal time to perform

sadhana", " best time to get up". (from birendraji + anurag + arvind

+ Ashishji)

g. Comments/description about various audio cassettes

h. articles on meditation, spirituality, traatak, kundalini,

yogic_asana, mantra pronunciation etc. etc. from Sadhak's

perspective. + Extracts from some interesting & encouraging articles

from books

& mag about Sadhanas and Gurudev (from birendraji +arvind)

i. Various articles containing Info about Pujya Gurudev, His quotes

etc. (from anuragji)

j. Latest in Scientific Research (from anuragji)

k. other general issues concerning sadhaks (any misc. issues)

 

5. The "improvement wish list" on www.siddhashram.org is -

a. More photographs of Gurudev

b. Need to upload details of all back issues (categorised by

yearwise/sadhna wise - birendraji)

c. More audio & video (from Birendraji. long term plan.we need to

agree upon a proposed technical solution )

d. books in pdfs/zip format (from Birendraji+ charanjitji. possible

copyright/trademark issue)

e. Better categorisation of Sadhanas on Sadhana page (from Birendraji

& Charanjitji)

(proposing two categories, one for purpose

(wealth/intelligence etc.) and another for deity)

f. Addition of details on Anusthaan and Havan in Sadhana page

g. FAQ updates. graphical content in FAQ (TOBE DELETED. This is not

required.most of entries

already in FAQ) add entries not already on FAQ eg.

ideal time to perform

Sadhana, best time to get up (from many)

h. Search Engine Improvements. viz. searching on word eg. traatak

(from charanjitji)

i. Speed Improvement. (need to reduce image sizes)

j. Addition of "Anusthaan" & "Hawan details" in Sadhana section

k. strategy for linking to portals (from Birendraji. Actual howto

is to be decided.)

l. glossary in printable format (from birendraji)

m. more experience articles & increase in archived material (from

birendraji)

o. Photographs + more details of Sadhana camp

p. Desist from showing "under construction"

 

6. update from Ashishji (man@work !) on 3/4 -

 

I've got my hand dirty with code. The new website would be driven by

XML and ASP. I also considered using an access db for faster query

based searching, but due to the proposed hugeness, I decided to make

it using XML. Technically, there would be two sections: (a) Public

(b) Author

 

(a) Public:

This is what the world would see. It would contain:

1. Headlines of latest stuff from every section (yet to be decided).

2. Briefs from current section linked to complete article/post.

3. Glossaries: We would define glossary terms in the Author section

and every article, before getting displayed, would be scanned for

these terms; if found, that term would be linked to it's definition.

 

(b) Author:

This section would be password protected. Everyone, willing to

contribute, would be assigned a username and password. The author,

after logging into his/her account, would be able to post. I am also

working on edit/delete options. The post would then be saved as an

XML file using the FileSystemObject and be shown in the Public

section instantly.

 

As Birendra suggested, the site can span through multiple accounts.

But Brinkster allows only one account per person, so we all have to

create accounts. Arvind, I need a vote on this point too. Are we

going to make a website bigger than 30 megs? Please note, we can't

put audio/video/zip/pdf etc. Brinkster doesn't allow these.

 

 

Jai Gurudev